Durand Police are asking for the public's help in solving a rash of vandalism in the city. Chief Ridgeway reported to the city council last night that on the night of December 2nd and 3rd and individual or individuals spray-painted graffiti on buildings, throughout the city including the Durand High School. Police have been reviewing security camera footage, but are asking for any member of the public that may have seen any suspicious activity during the night. If you have any information you are to contact the Durand Police Department.
Is Pepin County seeing a spike in Covid-19 due to the Thanksgiving Holiday Weekend? According to Pepin County Health Officer Heidi Stewart, that answer remains unknown. Some health experts are still concerned of a possible spike in cases due to Thanksgiving and the upcoming Christmas and New Year's holidays.
After 20yrs in Downtown Menomonie, the Menomonie Chamber of commerce is moving. Chamber CEO Ashley DeMuth says the new offices will be in north Menomonie. Demuth Says the new offices will have expanded parking, is closer to I-94 for tourists coming into town seeking information and there will be meeting rooms available for chamber members to use.
Long time Dunn County Circut Court Judge Rod W. Smeltzer is retiring. Judge Smeltzer has been on the bench for 24yrs after being elected to his first term in August of 1997. Before becoming Judge, Smeltzer spent eight years as an assistant prosecutor in the Dunn County District Attorney's Office. Smeltzer will finish out his final term which ends on July 31, 2021.
Governor Tony Evers says the Department of Defense is sending 45 Army medical personnel to Wisconsin to help the state combat COVID-19. Evers says Wisconsin's health care system is strained and frontline workers are doing amazing work under extraordinary circumstances and putting their health and safety on the line to take care of vulnerable patients. The medics will support Marshfield Medical Center facilities in Marshfield, Eau Claire, Beaver Dam, and Rice Lake. The Marshfield Clinic system has been utilizing volunteers from the Wisconsin Emergency Assistance Volunteer Registry (WEAVR), but the need for more staff to meet patient demand remains a challenge.
A Minnesota man is charged with being party to first-degree homicide and attempted first-degree homicide in a weekend stabbing outside a Hudson bar. William Davidson of Blaine was in a group of people who became involved in a fight early Sunday morning. Three victims were stabbed, with 26-year-old Cain Solheim of New Brighton dying from his injuries. Witnesses tell investigators Davidson was involved, but he wasn’t the one who had the knife. The suspects took off after the attack in a van with Minnesota license plates. That led investigators to Davidson.
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz says he will convene a special session of the Minnesota Legislature beginning on Monday. Walz says the goal is to provide much-needed relief to small businesses, workers, and families affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. And Walz says as COVID-19 cases continue to surge, he intends to extend his COVID-19 peacetime emergency by 30 days "to ensure that the state can continue to quickly respond to the pandemic."
Wisconsin is joining 48 other states in a lawsuit accusing Facebook of anti-trust violations. Attorney General Josh Kaul says Facebook has long engaged in anti-competitive practices and has sought to either buy out or stamp out any competition using the weight of its position as the largest social media platform in the country. The lawsuit alleges that Facebook executives orchestrated the purchases of competitors WhatsApp and Instagram in order to prevent them from gaining market shares and that the company uses its massive user base to spy on people and violate their privacy in order to sell advertising.
The crash of a Wisconsin Air National Guard F-16 in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula is being investigated. The jet went down in an area of Delta and Schoolcraft counties last night. The Guard says the fighter plane attached to the 115th Fighter Wing based in Madison crashed at about 8:00 p-m. There is no word about the pilot or any injuries on the ground. It isn’t clear why the plane went down. The 115th Fighter Wing is conducting a series of night-time training flights this week.
Wisconsin health officials are warning that most state residents may not be vaccinated before next fall. They say a COVID-19 vaccine is close. The first patients in the United Kingdom got the approved vaccine by Pfizer Tuesday. The same drug could be approved in the U-S by Thursday. But, that doesn’t mean life is about to get back to normal. It will be a big job to vaccine everyone. Since the start of the pandemic, Wisconsin has tested about two-point-six-million people. To vaccinate everyone would double that number – and a little more.
The final report of the Governor’s Task Force on Climate Change is calling for a reduction of carbon emissions from Wisconsin utilities. The report from the task force led by Lieutenant Governor Mandela Barnes calls for a net reduction of at least 60 percent below 2005 levels by 2030 and 100 percent below 2005 levels by 2050, according to WisPolitics. The report states that the Public Service Commission projects utilities are on pace to reduce emissions to 44 percent below 2005 levels by 2026. That does not include the expected reductions from a coal plant retirement announced in May. In all, the report lists 46 top-tier recommendations from the task force, WisPolitics said.
State agencies have updated safe safe-eating guidelines for fish from Wisconsin waters. The 2020-2021 Choose Wisely booklet, jointly produced by the Departments of Natural Resources and Health Services identifies Wisconsin water bodies with elevated levels of contaminants. The updated booklet outlines safe-eating guidelines for fish based on levels of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), mercury and perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS). Fish throughout Wisconsin were sampled from waters with suspected pollution and contamination along with popular angling areas.
The Wisconsin Transparency Project accuses Madison and Dane County public health managers of ignoring requests for information. The project’s leader says they are trying to control the narrative around the coronavirus pandemic. Tom Kamenick wrote a critical letter to Public Health Madison and Dane County this week accusing leaders there of ignoring the law, turning down requests from the public to see even basic data, and of being incredibly arrogant in the process. Kamenick says if the information isn’t forthcoming he will sue.
The Minnesota D-N-R will have two special hunts in southeastern Minnesota to help limit the spread of chronic wasting disease (CWD) in wild deer. The first is December 26th through 27th and the second is set for January 2nd and 3rd in the southeastern management zone and the south metro zone. D-N-R program leader Barbara Keller says special hunts are an important tool in disease management, allowing the agency to focus on specific areas where the disease has been detected and reduce deer densities in targeted areas. Hunters may purchase an unlimited number of disease management permits and those harvesting a deer must submit a sample for C-W-D testing.
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